re: #259 calochortus

… are easier to trace than the English ones, or the ones that have been in the US more or less forever.

Yup. There’s that black hole of the time before about the War of 1812 back to Jamestown, where unless the woman was from a very well off family who wrote lots of land deals and wills and such, one just can’t trace the woman’s ancestors, because we don’t know the maiden name.

And also, in some of the colonies, the women didn’t even have legal rights to their own children.